Kids get two whole weeks off for Christmas vacation from public school

In elementary school, we had a school Xmas pageant several days before Christmas Eve and then school shut down until after New Years. I went to a small district so HS was the same except no pageant although our band put on a holiday music performance.
 

When I went to school we got from the day before Christmas to the day after New Year (of course extended somewhat if those days fell on weekends).
How was it when you were in school compared to now?
yes they get 2 weeks off.. but so did we back in the 60's ..in fact we got a little longer in Scotland because the Scots celebrate New year more than Christmas so we never went back to school until a week after New years day...
 
It is about 6 weeks here - the Christmas holidays go from mid December to the day after Australia Day ( Jan 26th)
This is about the same as when I was a child
That was how it was when I was a child too, however NSW schools changed from three school terms to four a long time ago and to balance out the extra break the long summer holiday was reduced by one week and children are in school until closer to Christmas Day and return before Australia Day. Works out to be pretty much the same overall.
 

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